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Why do Restaurants & Cafes need it?

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Did you Know?

Public Liability Insurance: The average level of cover our customers take for their restaurant and cafe business is 10 million dollars.

Insurance for Restaurants & Cafes

Public Liability

There is no end to the list of possible accidents that could happen in the restaurant environment, and you need to protect your business from any potential claims. These could arise from a waiter dropping hot food on a customer, to a customer slipping on a melted ice-block on the floor, or a supplier tripping on the plastic mat in the prep area, and even unthinkable issues like broken teeth being found in food (true story). Yuck!

Food poisoning is also a huge risk for restaurants and cafes – imagine the risk to brand reputation and impact on trading from a food poisoning incident – a dodgy piece of fish or a bout of salmonella could turn your cash cow into curdled milk!

Business Insurance

Even though you can’t insure the ambience you have created in your restaurant, you can insure the building and all its contents:

Building – if you own the building you will want to be able to rebuild or restore quickly. Water damage (pipes burst) or fire (in the kitchen) is a high risk area.

Contents – protection for damage to your chairs, tables and other fittings.

Machinery breakdown – if you depend on your fridges to keep food fresh you will want to ensure you have cover for them. You can even get an extension to cover loss of stock – so if your fridge motor burnt out and your food was spoiled you can include the cost of these items in your claim.

Business interruption – continuity is important in a restaurant. What happens if there are major power outages? Not just immediate impact of days of trading but also potential loss of custom from customers who don’t return.

Management Liability

If you have employees in your restaurant, you’ll need to cover all your (pizza) bases!

Ensuring fair treatment in all areas of business is important e.g. protection against bullying and harassment, discrimination and unfair dismissal, EPA Fines.

OH&S is also an important part of running a restaurant – management liability provides cover for this.

Correct disposal of waste and garbage is important for small businesses and like all restaurants you will be dealing with grease – if a team member inadvertently disposed of this incorrectly you could be fined.

While we like to think of all employees as good people, theft in small business is commonplace. Management liability protects against such instances.

Tax Audit

As a restaurant owner you have enough to keep you busy day and night. Take the stress out of an ATO investigation with this insurance.

Cyber Insurance

As a restaurant owner your exposure could be at the payment desk – with your eftpos machine hacked.

Could this happen to your business?

Something fishy

A busy restaurant in the city had an off day and served some fish that wasn’t quite right. It resulted in five of their loyal customers being poisoned and becoming violently ill! They were each paid out $20,000 for their medical treatment and damages.

Power cut palaver

A pro-longed power outage whilst the shop was shut caused the stock of a local fish and chips shop to be ruined (including food, ice creams and drinks). The clients claim was settled for $2,373. Less the $500 discount, the client received $1,873.

Wow, so easy. I was shocked. Thank you! My time precious at the moment.

Raoul Symons
Retail

I have gone through Bizcover to insure two of my businesses which I have found easy to do on line and not having a lot of time to waste on phone calls I find it convenient and time saving.

Angela Baker
Retail

Quick, simple and painless. The way everything should be.

Scott Smith
Retail

I found them most professional. They were the cheapest for my business cover. I would recommend them to other businesses and would definitely buy from them again. They helped me choose what was the best cover for me.

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BizCover™ Pty Ltd (ABN 68 127 707 975; AR 338440) is a corporate authorised representative of Mega Capital Pty Ltd (ABN 37 098 080 418; AFSL 238549). Please note that BizCover™ acts as the agents of the insurer in respect of the insurance products offered on this website and not as your agent. Any advice does not consider your individual needs. You should consider if the insurance is suitable for you and read the Product Disclosure Statement or policy wording before buying the insurance.

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